THE CABINET: Flop, Mess, Tangle

In the long history of U. S. political eccentricity, few campaign
speeches have been as curious as the one which General Hugh Samuel
Johnson delivered to an astonished Cleveland audience last week. The
New Deal, declared the onetime No. 2 New Dealer, has made "not one
inch of progress" toward solving the farm and unemployment
problems. Its work relief program is a "fantastical flop."
Its fiscal policies, if unchecked, will result in the "creation of
floods of printing press money." Let us therefore, cried the
General, re-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936....